General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Sammy Sofa]

He hasn't played baseball since high school, right?

 

He has zero chance.

[Banedon]

My favorite part is how it looks like he's doing an NFL combine.

[Omar]

im sure he can run down a flyball and steal home runs like nobody's business

[Cubswin11]

He hasn't played baseball since high school, right?

 

He has zero chance.

Yes and he wasn't even good then, IIRC, he had no college offers to play/wasn't drafted.

[Sammy Sofa]

Just let the White Sox sign him like you know Kenny Williams so desperately wants to do.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

he'll put (white Christian) butts in the seats

[Banedon]

he'll put (white Christian) butts in the seats

 

White christians don't have butts. They're smooth like a ken doll down there.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The Cubs were one of the teams not there.

 

Saw tweets where scouts gave him a 40 for his outfield arm. As a former NFL quarterback.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

The Cubs were one of the teams not there.

 

Saw tweets where scouts gave him a 40 for his outfield arm. As a former "NFL" "quarterback".

[Cubswin11]

If MLB spent as much time marketing all the great young players in the game right now as they did with Tebow today on social media they might actually grow the popularity and awareness of the game and how awesome a time it is to be a fan with all the great young players that is kind of unprecedented.

[Sammy Sofa]

he'll put (white Christian) butts in the seats

 

White christians don't have butts. They're smooth like a ken doll down there.

 

[David]

If MLB spent as much time marketing all the great young players in the game right now as they did with Tebow today on social media they might actually grow the popularity and awareness of the game and how awesome a time it is to be a fan with all the great young players that is kind of unprecedented.

I think MLB does plenty to market the great young players on social media. Like, they're really, really good with it.

[Cubswin11]

If MLB spent as much time marketing all the great young players in the game right now as they did with Tebow today on social media they might actually grow the popularity and awareness of the game and how awesome a time it is to be a fan with all the great young players that is kind of unprecedented.

I think MLB does plenty to market the great young players on social media. Like, they're really, really good with it.

I think they are pretty shitty with it from my completely subjective perspective. They are Nazis with tweeting/vining/etc videos of of plays and ban people for it, when they should be embracing people trying to get coverage of their sport out there. My friends who follow sports easily know the least about baseball in terms of knowing how many good young players are out there right now, maybe they are doing a shitty job of following but for the amount of sports consumption they have I feel like they should know the Mookie Betts, Corey Seager's, Bryant's of the world. They already know more about Ben Simmons than they do any of them and I'd say their basketball to baseball following is identical. Again completely subjective based on my experiences but it's my takeaways from it at least.

[David]

I haven't remotely noticed anything like that as far as posting clips. I see MLB vines and gifs/clips constantly. You're literally describing the exact opposite of my perception.

[Cubswin11]

I haven't remotely noticed anything like that as far as posting clips. I see MLB vines and gifs/clips constantly. You're literally describing the exact opposite of my perception.

You can only post/re post clips they originally post. You can't do it of your own. Like Barstool BigCat has been banned from twitter twice for posting a video he took of Cubs stuff. Contreras's first HR he got banned for posting a video he took watching the game.

[Cubswin11]

Also MLB has tweeted or re-tweeted about Tebow 13 times by my count in the last 6-8 hours. They've tweeted about Mike Trout 11 times since 2016 began..... https://twitter.com/search?q=Trout%20from%3AMLB&src=typd&lang=en

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, but Mike Trout, as great as he is, is boring as horsefeathers this year.

[David]

Trout is old news and on a shitty old boring team. Bryzzo is where it's at.

[OleMissCub]

If I was the owner or the GM of a baseball team and a scout came and said that he thinks Tebow could help us, I'm firing the entire scouting department because our organization must really, really suck top to bottom.

[Sammy Sofa]

Trout is old news and on a [expletive] old boring team. Bryzzo is where it's at.

 

Mike Trout: everyone's dad's favorite baseball player.

[Banedon]

Also MLB has tweeted or re-tweeted about Tebow 13 times by my count in the last 6-8 hours. They've tweeted about Mike Trout 11 times since 2016 began..... https://twitter.com/search?q=Trout%20from%3AMLB&src=typd&lang=en

 

lol, you're using the MLB twitter account as your "marketing" definition? I don't even follow that account, actually.

 

Try @Cut4 or @MLBGifs.

 

Also, just searching for the word "Trout" doesn't mean they didn't tweet about him. It just means they didn't use his name.

 

This one won't show up in a search for Arrieta...

 

 

Nor will this show up in a search for Beltre...

 

[BigSlick]

Tim Tebow really missed his calling as a Tight End/H-Back. If he didn't have too much pride, he coulda etched himself out a very nice career there

 

I'll never forgive the Bears for inexplicably blowing a game against him to build his stupid legend up and also to miss out of the playoffs.

[David]

Tim Tebow really missed his calling as a Tight End/H-Back. If he didn't have too much pride, he coulda etched himself out a very nice career there

 

I'll never forgive the Bears for inexplicably blowing a game against him to build his stupid legend up and also to miss out of the playoffs.

 

that game should've been amazing...jay's return to denver and the bears should've demolished them. the fans still were super mad at him back then so it would have been glorious. that season was heart breaking. team was absolutely rolling.

[David]

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[Cubswin11]

Also MLB has tweeted or re-tweeted about Tebow 13 times by my count in the last 6-8 hours. They've tweeted about Mike Trout 11 times since 2016 began..... https://twitter.com/search?q=Trout%20from%3AMLB&src=typd&lang=en

 

lol, you're using the MLB twitter account as your "marketing" definition? I don't even follow that account, actually.

 

Try @Cut4 or @MLBGifs.

MLB's Twitter has 6 million followers, Cut 4 has like 700k and MLB Gifs has 200k. So I'd say that MLB has a greater reach than either of those two. I was just pointing out how ridiculous it is the main MLB Twitter has posted more about Tebow in a few hours than Trout all year.